Rain-water trap



(No Model.)

B. T. TOOMER.

RAIN WATERI'RAP.

No. 298,520. PatentedMay 13, 1884.

[ v I I i YE ' INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE,

EDWARD T. TOOMER, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

RAIN-WATER TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,520, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed December 19, 1883.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. TooMER, of Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Rain-Water Trap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in rain-water cut-offs or traps; and it consists of the combination of parts and their construction, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which the tigure is a side elevation of my improved trap-device applied to a cistern.

At the top of the cistern a, or in any suit-- able location, I arrange a small receiving-tank, b, which is separated into two chambers, c d, by a partition, 6, one of which has a spout, f, discharging into the cistern (1, and the other ha a pipe, i, discharging into the bucket g, and over the tank I) a section, 72, of the conductor-pipe is hung on a pivot, Z, and connected to a shifting-cord, m, by which said conductor h is to be shifted from side to side over tank I), according as the water is to be discharged into one or the other of the chambers c d, said cord extending in opposite directions from the pipe and connecting on one side with the weighted lever 72, pivoted at 0, and on the other side with the lever p, pivoted at q, and having a float, s, suspended from it in a tank, t, standing under a spout, it, which discharges from bucket 9 into said tank, to raise the float and allow the weighted lever 02 to pull the conductor h over from chamberd (No model.)

thatit would raise the float and shift the pipe,

I make a notch, w, in the buoketg, at the lower side of the notch 12, and lower than spout u, so that all the water will escape in such case and none will flow into the float-tank when the volume of water is too small to wash the roof clean. After the rain is over, the water is to be allowed to escape from tank t, to permit the float to descend and pull the pipe back over the waste-chamberd of the tank b, ready for the next rain-fall. For this purpose said tank If is provided with a waste-cock, t, to be opened by hand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a rain-water cut-off or trap, the combination of conductor or pipe it, two compartment chamber 2), pipe 2', and bucket 9. having the spout u, waste-passage o, and notch w in the lower edge of the waste-passage o, substanf tially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWARD T. TOOMER. Witnesses:

M G. HUDSON, H. A. ScHRoEDER. 

